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Creators: Jim Heimann (Edited by)
Publisher: TASCHEN
ISBN: 9783836591461
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 512 pages
On Sale Date: 9/13/2023
Dimensions: 8.9 in H | 6.5 in W | 1.3 in T | 2.5 lb Wt
Welcome to our comprehensive visual history on all things surfing. With hundreds of images and essays by todays leading surf journalists, this publication spans photography, fashion, film, art, and music to chart the evolution of surfing culture from its first mention in 1778 to todays global and multi-platform phenomenon.
This volume is a comprehensive visual history of surfing, marking a major cultural event as much as a publication. Following three and a half years of meticulous research, it brings together hundreds of images to chart the evolution of surfing as a sport, a lifestyle, and a philosophy.
The book is arranged into five chronological chapters, tracing surfing culture from the first recorded European contact in 1778 by Captain James Cook to the global and multi-platform phenomenon of today. Utilizing institutions, collections, and photographic archives from around the world, and with accompanying essays by the worlds top surf journalists, it celebrates the sport on and off the water, as a community of 20 million practitioners and countless more devotees, and as a leading influence on fashion, film, art, and music.
An unrivaled tribute to the breadth, complexity, and richness of surfing, this book is a must-have for any serious player on the surfing scene and anybody who aspires to the surfing lifestyle. As one surfing scribe has declared, There has never been a book like this, and there will never be another one again.
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